This jacket has three layers, the outer mesh layer, a middle water proof layer for rain, and an inner thick warmth layer. The layering system is good, but could be excellent if it allowed me to zip the inner warmth layer to the outer layer without the use of the middle layer. As it is built you must wear the middle layer to zip it all together. You can still wear the warmth layer unzipped inside the outer layer, of course, but then it's not a single unit and it defeats the purpose of layering to create a unit. So the zippering system here must be improved.

The zipper that is really terrible is the main zipper: the one on the outer layer, that closes the jacket. It is a very small zipper for this application, and the way the jacket is built it is really hard to see the zipper to start it. If you are using all three layers together then it is even harder to use. I have another Sedici jacket that has a bigger zipper, The Arturo mesh jacket, and that one has excellent zippers. As it is built right now this zipper is a major let down. Other jackets can be zipped shut in a second without looking, while on this one I have to search for the sipper, and actually look for the zipper hole to aim it, takes much longer. The funny thing is that elsewhere in the jacket, like for example where the three layers zip together, Sedici used a larger size zipper that would be excellent on the outside. It really baffles my mind why they used the small zipper on the main one. With this zipper as it is I would not recommend this jacket to a friend.

Found the jacket to fit well. with the liner it keeps you pretty comfy (down into the 40's). Overall its a great jacket, but like everyone else is harping about.....THE ZIPPER! Why make such a great jacket and put a under sized zipper on it? I would give it a 5 if not for that.